On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon).
This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, but mplib is used instead. This bring down metapost runtime and conversion to nearly zero. The user interface is the same, but the implementation is different.
Tomorrow (or so) taco will make releasenotes.
Hans
Hi Hans, I just downloaded and payed with it very very briefly - it works, and it seems A LOT faster with my presentations, where every background is calculated by metapost. For this sort of file, luatex now looks a lot faster than pdftex. I'm looking forward to comparing speed some more. Thanks and kudos to Taco and to you! All best Thomas